Imagine though that Matt doesn't KNOW THAT. He knows nothing of his mother, Jack refused to talk about her, just told Matt that her name was Grace, she had hazel eyes like Matt, and died when Matt was a baby. And Matt's spent his entire life thinking his mother was DEAD (because Jack didn't live long enough to tell him the truth) and now he finds out that she just LEFT.
That she said that Jack and Matt would be better off without her, that perhaps there was something she loved MORE than her family (some sort of a job?), that she just LEFT and never came back, and never spoke to Matt or Jack, and she clearly didn't want him, right? She didn't love him. SHE WOULDN'T HAVE LEFT IF SHE DID.
Re: Like Mother, Like Son
Imagine though that Matt doesn't KNOW THAT. He knows nothing of his mother, Jack refused to talk about her, just told Matt that her name was Grace, she had hazel eyes like Matt, and died when Matt was a baby. And Matt's spent his entire life thinking his mother was DEAD (because Jack didn't live long enough to tell him the truth) and now he finds out that she just LEFT.
That she said that Jack and Matt would be better off without her, that perhaps there was something she loved MORE than her family (some sort of a job?), that she just LEFT and never came back, and never spoke to Matt or Jack, and she clearly didn't want him, right? She didn't love him. SHE WOULDN'T HAVE LEFT IF SHE DID.
And yeah, OH. Horrible epiphany indeed.